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St Mark’s Mar­ket Day will be held Satur­day Oc­to­ber 20 (Labour Week­end) on the cor­ner of Kawhata Street and Kop­utara Road, Hi­matangi Beach from 8am to 1pm. There will be Stalls, Food, Devon­shire Teas. Stall sites $10-00.

Con­tact Ruth Ph 3299642 for more in­for­ma­tion.

Scott a top mower

Recre­ational Ser­vice Horowhenua mower op­er­a­tor Scott Martin has been voted the best within the com­pany this year, beat­ing about 200 oth­ers to the ti­tle of Top Mower Op­er­a­tor. Last year a crew mem­ber won Top Grounds­man.

Horowhenua also won the com­pany’s Pos­i­tive Im­age Award.

“It is about com­mu­nity en­gage­ment. We do a monthly beach clean-up, spon­sor sports team, do a bar­be­cue and tidy up rub­bish around the district,” said Evan Hicks, op­er­a­tions man­ager. Horowhenua is one of 12 branches within the com­pany. “We nom­i­nate our best staff each year. We talk about their work and sup­ply tech­ni­cal de­tails of that work to nom­i­nate for any awards.”